Sanctuary Asia

The Sanctuary Nature Foundation’s flagship Sanctuary Asia magazine founded and edited by Bittu Sahgal has been in continuous publication since 1981 and remains India's leading and best-loved magazine in its genre. Browse through select articles from our past issues.
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A Sense of Wonder
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, exc

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The Evolutionary Climate
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewher

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Can the Forest Rights and Wildlif...
It’s an old mistake. Lush tropical forests give people the erroneous impression that the land itself is rich. Therefore, when politicians and planners, unfami

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Both Ends
“Never burn your candle at both ends." I doubt that I will ever forget that line of advice, proffered consistently by my father, Lal Chand Sahgal, through the

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On Insecurity
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor

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The Singer and the Song
These young children are making their voices heard. For years now, Kids for Tigers, the Sanctuary Tiger Programme, has taught millions of rural and urban Indi

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Over a Barrel
The earliest known leopard Panthera pardus fossil, discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania, dates back 3.8 million years. The spotted cats are believed to have found

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Up in Smoke
Way back in the 1970s, of all the absurd ideas that scientists, in search of funding, came up with, the Frankenstein Award would surely go to the guys who wan

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Man bites shark
Diving in the seas off Lakshadweep with Mitali Kakkar of Reefwatch, I watched the young white-tipped reef shark swim nonchalantly through its coral universe,

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Death on Track
“An enormous body, two overgrown teeth, and an upper lip, which joins the nose to form a trunk - these are the evolutionary tools, which the world’s largest l

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Darwin’s World
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet ha

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Man’s best friend
I love dogs. The ones in my home; the ones on India’s mean streets; the wild ones that run chital and sambar down in deep forests and the ones that started it

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